This is Intelligence Matters, with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morel.

Brought to you by Lockheed Martin.

Your mission is ours.

One possibility is there was a virus that went straight from bats to humans.

Option two, there was a series of jumps from bats through intermediate hosts.

Number three, which the Chinese government is promoting that there was some kind of virus

that got stuck in some frozen food somewhere and was shipped to Wuhan.

And then number four, likely possibility of an accidental lab leak.

In the earliest days of the pandemic, China prevented world health inspectors from coming

to Wuhan for nearly a month.

They immediately started taking down databases that had previously been accessible to the

public.

They immediately started silencing people who may have been able to provide invaluable

evidence to the world about the origins of COVID-19.

As a matter of fact, the only reason that we had the sequence genome of the SARS-CoV-2

virus as early as we did is that there was basically a Chinese scientist who went rogue.

We've seen an over-politicization of all of this, whether it's a republicans versus

democrats, America versus China or whatever.

We need to try at least to the best of our ability to get over all of that and just ask

the questions, where does this come from?

We need a WHO.

If we didn't have one, we'd be desperately now scrambling to create it.

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